Back Roads (Blu-ray) R
Running from the past, and backing into love.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 10, 2016
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Sally Field & Tommy Lee Jones | |
| Performer: | David Keith, M. Emmet Walsh, Miriam Colon, Michael V. Gazzo, Dan Shor, Barbara Babcock, Nell Carter, Lee de Broux, Ralph Seymour, John Dennis Johnston & Don 'Red' Barry | |
| Directed by | Martin Ritt | |
| Edited by | Sidney Levin | |
| Composition by | Henry Mancini | |
| Cinematography by | John A. Alonzo | |
| Produced by | Ronald Shedlo |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3/5 --
Less a movie than an extended sketch, and it's to the credit of Mr. Ritt, his stars and Gary Devore, the screenwriter, that the movie is so much fun.
New York Times
Very good on local colour but a bit sugary in its attitude to the central relationship, it would have been better taking a bleaker cue from Tommy Lee Jones' admirably dry performance.
Time Out
Rating: 2/4 --
It's a surprise to discover that this hackneyed, relatively dull road picture is the work of director Martin Ritt.
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TV Guide
...Extremely appealing and occasionally gutsy and very funny....One of the most stylish comedies you'll ever see about the joys of third-ratedness.
New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
A quiet and unassuming little comedy, a dual-gendered character study mixed with a low-key "road trip" adventure.
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DVDTalk.com
Back Roads is a love story with real clout.
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Spirituality and Practice
Despite the efforts of the two talented leads, their central relationship fails to ignite, while the comedy is lacklustre at best.
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Film4
Product Description:
The comic actions begins in a trashy hotel in Alabama. There a spirited hustler is picked up by an equally cheerful drifter.
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